If you're ever in our offices on a Wednesday, you're likely to hear Valentin philosophize for 10 minutes about a quote, or Sébastien ask ever more perplexing questions about how you're doing.
What could be more normal? It's Week Mood day: Moha's 100% listening meeting. It's a convivial moment, but also very useful for monitoring quality of life at work!
What's more, it's ultra-simple to set up: it takes 2 minutes to prepare, and costs 0€! A derisory investment compared to what it brings us (and we say so ourselves at Moha!).
So here we go: our long-established Wednesday routine!
Ever wondered which movie poster would best represent your week? Jaws, Forrest Gump or Bienvenue chez les Ch'tis?
At Moha, we ask ourselves questions like this all the time. But why, you might ask?
I promise, this ritual has a real purpose!
That's what Weekmood is all about: our weekly get-together to discuss everyone's mood. It's a moment that's very important to everyone, for a whole host of good reasons, which we'll tell you about right after.
On Wednesday mornings, the whole team meets (in physics or remote) and expresses its feelings about the week, its level of motivation, its current projects, or anything else it feels like telling the others about.
Forexample, Ophélie tells us that she's working on a huge project with her team, and that even though it motivates her a lot, she sometimes feels imposter syndrome.
We talk about work, but not just work! This allows us to see our colleagues in a different context: we learn, for example, that Lucie is working on a sewing project, or that Amanda has taken up sport again.
The original aspect: the point is guided by a question proposed by a member of the team, which changes every week. So we've already found ourselves explaining to our colleagues that we feel more like a grape or a banana, or that we identify more with a cat that sleeps than a cat that sticks its tongue out... Get the picture?
Keeping track of assignments and projects in progress, and the many meetings that take place, are well entrenched in the world of work. But at the office, there are also all the informal moments that make up corporate life: coffee breaks, lunch, afterworks...
In short, we have plenty of opportunities to chat with our colleagues. But not everyone benefits as much from these convivial moments: telecommuting employees, managers, more reserved people... Besides, we talk about it, and it stays there.
And yet, sometimes, what we say to each other during these informal times is quite precious: "right nowI'm feeling so much stress to finish this project", "at home I've got the work to manage, and the journey to work takes up a lot of my time"....
All this speaks volumes about employee well-being, and a number of decisions could be taken to improve it still further. At Moha, we take advantage of this time to take the temperature of the teams, adapt the work, or know when a colleague needs support, for example.
Listening is essential for a good QVCT! Because there's nothing like listening to your employees and consulting them regularly to ensure their well-being.
Who better to talk about it than the people involved? We asked a few of our team members what they thought of this weekly update.
🪶 Caroline (Content Strategist):
"What I love about Week-Mood is that the question says a lot about the person who chose it! We see philosophers, pragmatists, fans of pop culture, gamers who do it in quiz format... In truth, it's a great space for creativity and listeningthe winning combo in my line of work!"
🎨 Nabil (Product Owner & Lead designer) :
"For me, the Week-mood is a great way to get to know each other better and learn more about each other. What I like most of all is the diversity of topicswhich allows us, as individuals, to do our own introspection. introspection"
💻 Amanda (Front-end developer) :
"As a full remoteWeek-mood enables me to keep a regular social link with everyone else. It's an informal moment where everyone is free to express their mood of the week. Using a third-party medium to express yourself is sometimes more obvious and reassuring than more frontal words. It's always full of good humor and benevolence
🏃 Valentin (Co-founder):
"For the teams, as well as for myself, this practice is indispensable. It allows us to detect who needs support, why, to experience to experience collective victoriesbut also, and above all, to better understand who we really are. Experience a human moment where we let go of the masks we wear at work, experience each other's emotions, it binds us together, it brings us togetherand it's good for a company to feel supported."
🪩 Manon (Events and Partnerships Project Manager) :
"Wednesday's weekmood is one of the moments I look forward to most during the week.. It's a chance to get everyone's pulse racing, find out some juicy anecdotes and get the ball rolling. momentum for the weekend. What's more, we often conclude this Week mood with a news item or an important piece of information about a project. This allows us toalways be clear about what's going on around us!"
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